The Washington Nuclear Engineering Student Delegation

Mark Reed

Mark has received his S.B. degree in Physics as well as his S.B. and S.M. degrees in
Nuclear Science and Engineering from MIT, and he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Nuclear
Science and Engineering at MIT. His past research includes magnetic confinement fusion and
its application as a neutron source in fission-fusion hybrid systems, enhanced fission yield
modeling techniques, and strategic plant siting in the context of seismic history. His current
doctoral research focuses on the neutronic effects of geometric distortions in fast reactors.

He has performed reactor modeling at TerraPower and risk assessment for the Yucca Mountain
Nuclear Waste Repository at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In his pre-nuclear life, he
was an engineering project management intern for the iPhone 3G at Apple and a research assistant
at the Princeton University Department of Astrophysical Sciences. Passionate about nuclear policy,
he has published a series of six articles on the history of nuclear technology, served as a speechwriter
for an elected official, and conceived the 2013 American Nuclear Society Student Conference theme "Public
Image of the Nuclear Engineer". In his spare time, he pursues his affinities for hiking, making random iPhone
applications, and composing awkward third-person autobiographies.